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  1  2,1 |    determining the exact number of Christians and concluded that though
  2  2,1 |      relatively) was the number of Christians. This lent it an extraordinary
  3  2,1 |          estimate of the number of Christians at that period is out of
  4  2,1 |       state and society, while the Christians were decidedly in the minority.
  5  2,1 |            time of Constantine the Christians constituted one-tenth of
  6  2,1 |           claim that the number of Christians exceeded one-tenth is precarious.”[
  7  2,1 |         uniform agreement that the Christians were in the minority during
  8  2,1 |      himself into the hands of the Christians, who constituted a minority
  9  2,1 |          decree gave pardon to the Christians for their former stubborn
 10  2,1 |            to exist. It declared: “Christians may exist again, and may
 11  2,1 |     According to this document the Christians and people of other religions
 12  2,1 |      measures directed against the Christians were declared null and void:~ ~
 13  2,1 |           unreservedly to the said Christians authority to practice their
 14  2,1 |        made this grant to the said Christians, your Devotion understands
 15  2,1 |        previously confiscated from Christians be restored to them freely
 16  2,1 |          how they should treat the Christians.[30]~ The conclusion, on
 17  2,1 |            illegal position of the Christians in the empire and declared
 18  2,1 |       property or money and grain. Christians could not be forced to participate
 19  2,1 |            Rome in the eyes of the Christians of the East; and, finally,
 20  2,2 |       strongly the position of the Christians in the Empire. At first
 21  2,2 |    independent rule. Sometimes the Christians would begin their disputes
 22  2,2 |         with the psychology of the Christians and felt certain that discord
 23  2,2 |       sacrifices.”[79]~ Meanwhile, Christians were being gradually removed
 24  2,2 |           second decree forbidding Christians not only to teach but even
 25  2,2 |            Julian, who forbade the Christians to teach and study the liberal
 26  2,2 |        first decree forbidding the Christians to teach indirectly involved
 27  2,2 |          of the teaching edict the Christians could send their children
 28  2,2 |          from that the majority of Christians abstained because they feared
 29  2,2 |    paganism. On the other hand, if Christians were not to receive a general
 30  2,2 |        extreme significance to the Christians, since it greatly endangered
 31  2,2 |        quite justly remarked: “The Christians were directly forbidden
 32  2,2 |            and grammar to instruct Christians was a cruel action, and
 33  2,2 |        interesting to note how the Christians reacted to this edict. Some
 34  2,2 |  Christianity. The predominance of Christians explains why in the triumphal
 35  2,2 |        Julian’s hatred against the Christians. His irritation grew still
 36  2,2 |           of Daphne. Naturally the Christians were suspected of setting
 37  2,2 |            Julian ordered that the Christians should be punished by the
 38  2,2 |           becoming very grave. The Christians in their turn destroyed
 39  2,2 |          Emperor was killed by the Christians. Christian historians, however,
 40  2,2 |            greeted with joy by the Christians. Christian writers named
 41  2,3 |           were considered Catholic Christians; all others, “the mad and
 42  2,3 |     numerous sea raids. The Gothic Christians were even represented at
 43  2,3 |         the friend of Rome and the Christians, and the persecutor of the
 44  2,3 |          granted permission to the Christians to worship openly and to
 45  2,3 |            ages of ages,”[124] The Christians did not enjoy complete freedom
 46  2,4 |         Nestorian or Syro-Chaldean Christians, was headed by a bishop
 47  2,5 |            in which he defends the Christians against the religious attacks
 48  2,5 |         the true benefactor of the Christians, who now attained the high
 49  2,5 |        esteemed by both pagans and Christians. He wrote a large collection
 50  2,5 |          letters; his “Against the Christians,” which is preserved in
 51  3,4 |           religious toleration for Christians in Persia on the strict
 52  3,9 |      Topography is to prove to the Christians that, regardless of the
 53  3,9 |        Ethiopia.”[100] The Persian Christians who remained permanently
 54  4,1 |     treasures and set on fire. The Christians were exposed to merciless
 55  4,1 |            to some sources, 60,000 Christians perished. Many treasures
 56  4,1 |           Yemen in the south, many Christians penetrated into the peninsula.
 57  4,1 |          contact with the Jews and Christians began to meditate more and
 58  4,1 |          Abraham, corrupted by the Christians and Jews. One of Muhammed’
 59  4,1 |        some later alterations. The Christians had succeeded in removing
 60  4,1 |            s consideration for the Christians who were ruled by men of
 61  4,1 |            A large number of urban Christians adopted Arabic culture though
 62  4,1 |            contemnentes). Woe! The Christians have forgotten their own
 63  4,1 |          exceptions, they left the Christians their temples and the right
 64  4,1 |           political loyalty of the Christians to the Arabian rulers. Jerusalem,
 65  4,1 |          there the attitude to the Christians was quite tolerant, at least
 66  5,2 |            like St. Sophia for the Christians, remained for a long time
 67  5,2 |            V. Barthold, “among the Christians as well as among the Muslims,
 68  5,4 |         closer relationship of the Christians with the Jews and Muhammedans,
 69  5,5 |          and who asserted that the Christians resort to icons as if the
 70  5,8 |     rescued from the river by some Christians and given solemn burial.[
 71  5,8 |       remained in the hands of the Christians. From Sicily the most natural
 72  5,8 |     century there were a number of Christians in the palaces of the princes.
 73  5,8 |           of Buddha adopted by the Christians of the East for their own
 74  6,2 |            of Byzantium, while the Christians of the vassal districts
 75  6,2 |     churches was guaranteed to the Christians. Freedom to change from
 76  6,2 |           cruel persecution of the Christians, which undoubtedly greatly
 77  6,2 |   destroyed it.”[30] The terrified Christians and Jews thronged the Muslim
 78  6,2 |          defense of the persecuted Christians and their sanctuaries. After
 79  6,2 |         period of tolerance toward Christians again set in, and in 1023
 80  6,2 |           had been restored to the Christians, that the Church of the
 81  6,2 |          and that, in general, the Christians were safe in the dominions
 82  6,2 |      special attention. First, the Christians should obtain the right
 83  6,7 |          not be included among the Christians!” The Catholic historian
 84  6,8 |       empty of population, for all Christians have been slain by them
 85  6,8 |         western Europe and to “all Christians (ad omnes christianos),
 86  6,8 |            by the joint efforts of Christians and Muslims, while in times
 87  6,8 |           deeds and fights for the Christians and the Empire; in his conception
 88  7,1 |           Holy Empire of the Greek Christians which is oppressed by the
 89  7,1 |     insulting and murdering of the Christians, children, youths, women,
 90  7,1 |            from the faithful Latin Christians reach us;” the Emperor “
 91  7,1 |            the Empire of the Greek Christians had been precipitated.~
 92  7,1 |       assaults on the churches and Christians occurred in the tenth century,
 93  7,1 |            the life of the eastern Christians, and pilgrims continued
 94  7,1 |           a violent persecution of Christians and Jews all over his possessions.
 95  7,1 |    possession of Syria, forced the Christians to restore the Church of
 96  7,1 |          time of tolerance for the Christians ensued. A peace was made
 97  7,1 |       Minor. Vexations against the Christians soon recommenced. In 1056
 98  7,1 |            more than three hundred Christians were exiled from Jerusalem.~
 99  7,1 |       always laying snares for the Christians, lie hidden in the hollow
100  7,1 |        Arabs’ tolerance toward the Christians also manifested itself in
101  7,1 |             a very large number of Christians who were freely professing
102  7,1 |     persecution and insults of the Christians that many scholars ascribe
103  7,1 |            of the Turks toward the Christians: “The Seljuk sultans governed
104  7,1 |            drop a few hints at the Christians in many cases preferring
105  7,1 |          to that of the emperors … Christians under the Seljuk rule were
106  7,1 |        century the position of the Christians in Palestine was not yet
107  7,1 |         Constantinople to help the Christians, who, deeply depressed by
108  7,1 |        position of the Palestinian Christians grew worse. Thus, in Gregory’
109  7,1 |        that, in arming the western Christians for the struggle with the
110  7,1 |          desire to aid the eastern Christians and to deliver the Holy
111  7,1 |            the persecutions of the Christians in the Holy Land, the pope
112  7,1 |       Sepulchre and of the eastern Christians. With cries of “Deus lo
113  7,1 |          East and a bulwark of the Christians against the Turkish attacks
114  7,1 |     possession of it, and then the Christians were massacred, the women
115  7,1 |           Palestinian and European Christians did not add to the prestige
116  7,2 |             all these weakened the Christians more and more and facilitated
117  7,2 |           had been pillaged by the Christians, Saladin entered the territory
118  7,2 |           on, and thus cut off the Christians from the possibility of
119  7,2 | indifference. At the same time the Christians faced as their adversary
120  7,2 |      untiring struggle against the Christians, these “barking dogs” and “
121  7,2 |         countercrusade against the Christians. A medieval legend relates
122  7,2 |         time did not belong to the Christians. It seemed that the new
123  7,2 |            of the Muhammedans. The Christians preserved for themselves
124  7,3 |            think and say about the Christians. The pope wrote:~ ~Our enemies
125  7,3 |          in the whole country, the Christians do not dare any more to
126  7,3 |       remained in the hands of the Christians two important industrial
127  7,3 |          more merciful towards the Christians after the capture of Jerusalem
128  7,3 |          Saracens, but against the Christians, meaning not to reconquer
129  8,11|          century alliances between Christians and infidels did not trouble
130  8,11|    encourage “the mutual hatred of Christians,” answered through their
131  9,2 |          the Empire of the eastern Christians, seize Constantinople, and
132  9,3 |            century, an ally of the Christians against the Muhammedans.
133  9,4 |     Muhammedans took away from the Christians their last important coast
134  9,6 |          lie in wait and kill many Christians.[143]~ ~As for the acute
135  9,7 |            us [that is to say, the Christians], his sons might dance in
136  9,7 |       considerable army to aid the Christians in general and Manuel in
137  9,8 |            temporarily left to the Christians, though in a state of complete
138  9,8 |         After his victory over the Christians at Varna, Sultan Murad II
139  9,9 |           captivity. He begged all Christians to rise up in arms to defend
140  9,9 |            of good fortune for the Christians in the whole siege took
141  9,9 |        again into the hands of the Christians, the priest will come out
142  9,9 |           city, city, pride of the Christians and ruin of the barbarians!
143  9,9 |   expeditio] will be ready and the Christians will be able to defeat the
144  9,9 |              the discord among the Christians themselves, “a spectacle
145  9,13|          off from intercourse with Christians as much for his numerous
146  9,14|           pope was the head of all Christians. On the same day the Emperor
147  9,14|           but also to the Orthodox Christians beyond its confines, in
148  9,16|         which had been granted the Christians were strictly observed.
149  9,16|        half remained in use by the Christians. The church canons remained
150  9,16|            religious rights of the Christians became more frequent, and